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I read this designer note while browsing Hasbro’s website for some new Transformers toys:
This DECEPTICON jet uses deco inspired by the Russian Air Force SU-37 Flanker- F prototype. The design team went with this deco to provide something that had realistic cues but still stood out. The “Decepticon Air Force” marking [...]
Computer scientist Ben Shneiderman, a professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, proposes–and I’ll tell you now that these are his terms, not mine–”Science 2.0″ to replace “Science 1.0.”
Basically, he proposes–I think–a new scientific approach influenced by a community base ala social networking (e.g. friendster, myspace, facebook) and collaboration (e.g. wikipedia).
I’m really not [...]
What if people suddenly just burst into song like they do in musicals?
The group Improv Everywhere strikes again, this time in a Los Angeles mall food court. Seeing those people’s reactions is priceless.
The group used wireless mics to amplify the performer’s voices via the mall’s PA system. They also played the music through [...]
London just recently had posters put up telling people that in the numbers of people taking pictures, one of them may be suspicious and that they should rat that person out. It’s innocent until proven guilty, you dolts.
On a lighter note, it took less than a day before people started poking fun at those posters.
This [...]
Electronics company Kysoh came out with a penguin droid–who else it would be but Linux’s Tux? The Tux droid is a little robotic toy that talks and moves. It connects to your Linux box (via fish USB dongle!) so you can configure it to do all sorts of stuff. It also uses python as a [...]
Well, not really, but a man there decorated his mustang to look like the subversive cop car/hunter.
LAS VEGAS, N.M. - Jessie Vigil’s black-and-white car sports a red-and-blue emergency bar across the top and the word “police” painted on the doors. Vigil, however, isn’t a cop. Law enforcement agencies say what he’s done with his car [...]
Now, here’s the thing. First world country companies are already cooking up ways for interconnecting the world since they got the latest technologies figured out already. That’s well and good but let’s face it–the rest of the world isn’t like South Korea (where the best internet connections are present for your buck, baby).
Improving the number [...]
Could be. Using the Hubble telescope, scientists found an organic compound in a planet outside our solar system.
Scientists using the Hubble Telescope have for the first time found the telltale signature of the organic molecule, methane, in a planet’s atmosphere outside our solar system.
Methane is one of the chemicals of life, an organic compound in [...]
Ah yes, the irony of it.
A blogger-scientist and vocal critic of intelligent design and creationism was shown out the door of a movie theater premiering a creationism movie. The producer himself requested staff to be on the look out for this guy and this guy only.
No biggie, right? They have that right.
His family and guest, [...]
You can now watch South Park by way of teh interwebs legally. Matt Stone and Trey Parker debuted a website where you can [eventually] watch all episodes in their entirety, streamed into your browser.
I read somewhere that they were tired of illegally downloading their own show to watch episodes so they made arrangements for a [...]
